Experience the splendor of Ancient Rome and travel back in time to 79 A.D. when Pompeii bustled as a commercial port and strategic military and trading city. Forgotten for centuries after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and then rediscovered over 250 years ago, POMPEII: THE EXHIBITION features a 4D theater experience and nearly 200 artifacts including frescoes, mosaics, and precious items belonging to the residents of Pompeii.

OMSI and Widmer created a beer using fossils from Oregon made in the style of a traditional German stein bier. The fossils were collected by kids from OMSI's Camp Hancock and delivered to Widmer where they heated up the fossils and rocks to caramlize the beer.

The evening will begin with a look behind the scenes at how this beer came to together, followed by a 3-course dinner paired with Widmer Brother Brewing beers.

Event Schedule:

5:45PM: Doors Open

6:00PM: Science Demo

6:30PM: Dinner is served

Tickets are $60pp (OMSI members get a 15% discount) and include dinner, refreshements & gratuity. Advance ticket purchases are required, no tickets will be sold at the door due to food ordering processes. No refunds less than 24 hours prior to the event.

In 2016 we opened our state-of-the-art 10-barrel innovation brewhouse adjacent to the Widmer Brothers Pub. This is where our brewers experiment with new beer styles, stretch their creativity, and collaborate with fellow breweries and partners in the Portland food and beverage community.

The 10-barrel, 4-vessel system can produce around 2,000 barrels of beer annually—that’s close to 250,000 pints. At any given moment, you’ll find 15 innovation brews on tap at the pub, with new beers tapping weekly.

“The innovation breweries are an opportunity to make ourselves uncomfortable as brewers and bring ideas to life, to stretch ourselves through ongoing process improvements and trials, and to continuously pursue making ourselves and beers better. It truly is the endless pursuit of the perfect pint.” – Innovation Brewer Thomas Bleigh

The evening will begin with a science demo, followed by a 3-course dinner paired with Ninkasi beers. The grand finale with be dessert served with the exclusive space beer, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Ground Control.

Event Schedule:

5:45PM: Doors Open

6:00PM: Science Demo

6:30PM: Dinner is served

Tickets are $60pp (OMSI members get a 15% discount) and include dinner, refreshements & gratuity. Advance ticket purchases are required, no tickets will be sold at the door due to food ordering processes. No refunds less than 24 hours prior to the event.

In 2014, Ninkasi Brewing Company, an independent craft brewery based in Eugene, Oregon, embarked on a journey that took its beer to new heights—77.3 miles above Earth to be exact. The Ninkasi Space Program (NSP), was an initiative with one goal in mind: send brewer’s yeast to space, return it to Earth to brew delicious beer. In October 2014, Ninkasi sent six vials of brewer’s yeast to space aboard a rocket launched from Spaceport America and later, released its first “space beer” in 2015, Ground Control. This year, the beer returns with its sequel—Bourbon Barrel-Aged Ground Control. Brewed with Oregon hazelnuts, star anise and cocoa nibs, this Imperial Stout is fermented with an Ale yeast that survived a trip to space, barrel-aged for four months and blended.

In partnership with the Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT), the first amateur rocketeer group to successfully launch a rocket to space in 2004, the team will do it again, 10 years later, and carrying a payload of 16 strains of brewer’s yeast above Earth’s atmosphere. To read how it all happened and to keep updated on the NSP visit http://nsp.ninkasibrewing.com/.

Now you see it, or do you really? Travel through a mindboggling labyrinth of installations to explore optical, perceptual, and audio illusions, the human mind, and the science behind magic and logic. Researched by deception artist and TV magician Paul Gleeson, and curated by psychologist, author, and magician Richard Wiseman, Illusion challenges you to examine how perception underpins the way we see, feel, think, and understand the world.